The Capitol was the Loews Cinerama from August 1962 to November 1964. The only non-Cinerama run under that name was a popular price run of “THE CARDINAL”. After it returned to the Capitol name it was advertised as the Loews Capitol Cinerama for Cinerama runs only.
I have not found any evidence of fraud charges and suspect Loews was just doing the right thing.
Radio City was never built as a movie palace. The Roxy (Center) was the failed movie palace. Radio City was built as a Music Hall and settled for movies when music shows failed.
Nickelodeons did not first start in New York City but in cities like Pittsburgh and Chicago. New York was not the birthplace of film exhibition.
The New York boom was centered between Park Row and The Bowery in Manhattan where over two dozen operated by 1906 to service the crowded lower east side tenements.
“If we continually rob those who are successful and give it to those who aren’t, then we stifle growth and innovation.”
..and if you continually rob those who aren’t successful, you have no buyers."
Even conservative right wing Henry Ford understood that an employee paid a fair wage might buy a car. Why do conservatives fail to understand that basic capitalist idea today?
Chains build theatres based on marketing studies of age demographics, area income, employment, population, competition and complimentary retail. They then present a report to the bankers who will green light the financing. No chain in their right mind would start with a petition.
Cities approve projects based on projected size, footfall, traffic projection, public transport, impact on nearby residents, parking facilities, noise pollution, etc. They would only license a credible operator at a specific location.
Sounds like someone at Carmike gave this guy the brush off.
Unemployment was the highest since the great depression for three years after Reagan became president. It then improved for the following election (as it will improve in 2012 for Obama).
Yes, Scott, there is a way to give tax credits that are not strictly corporate. You support Medicare, Social Security, and let the rich pay fair taxes instead of always paying less than the average guy. And yes, it was an over the table payment to Marriott who owned Omni at the time.
The REPUBLICAN RICH COME FIRST mentality of St. Louis has yet to recover from the greedy Reagan years after thirty years because your wealthier white citizens are still doing just fine. Everyone else is getting screwed.
Massive tax breaks for the rich and deregulation of most industries, including the movies, allowing corporate take overs of most independent distributors AND exhibitors by the big eight.
The St Louis Union Square was designated a National Landmark in 1976 while Nixon was president.
Reagan’s 150 million dollar tax credits for Union Station were strictly corporate and Marriott made millions by building a free hotel with our tax dollars there. Pork spending defined.
Looking at the city’s dire job losses and population drops since, I think would have been better spent on helping people survive and keep their jobs without having to leave town.
An economic mess like St. Louis is exactly the product of companies like Marriott that Michael Moore targets.
If St. Louis had 150 million federal dollars today would you give it to Marriott for a hotel?
Altruism became dispensable in the greedy eighties when making a profit at any cost became acceptable among otherwise decent people. That was never the case anytime before in US history.
Trickle down Reaganomics and deregulation lead the charge. Movies about unpunished greed like “Risky Business” showed the rewards to whole generation when the hero received a scholarship for running a suburban brothel. The Material Girl Madonna was the poster child for raking in the cash.
Michael Moore’s movies are, albeit manipulative, not against capitalism itself but against this acceptable unbridled greed.
“Now, movies have a week or two to maximize their 3D ticket sales before finding themselves edged out of those screens by the next 3D movie, especially since most theatres that do have 3D capabilities only have two or three 3D screens.”
That theory would hold if each of these films had a huge opening followed by a huge drop. “Airbender”, “Despicable Me” and “Cats & Dogs” all had weak opening weekends on prime screens.
I think price gouging has been a factor. These are kid films and the family price plus popcorn can be extreme.
The Cosmo is listed.
/theaters/8364/
Larry Peerce directed “GOODBYE, COLUMBUS”. Arthur Hiller directed the blockbuster “LOVE STORY”.
Yes, Bway. The one behind it is the Venice.
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The Capitol was the Loews Cinerama from August 1962 to November 1964. The only non-Cinerama run under that name was a popular price run of “THE CARDINAL”. After it returned to the Capitol name it was advertised as the Loews Capitol Cinerama for Cinerama runs only.
I have not found any evidence of fraud charges and suspect Loews was just doing the right thing.
Only the facade was kept for the multiplex conversion. The rest of the building was new including the gutted out basement.
This theatre’s name needs to be updated.
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I wish them the best of luck but wasn’t the nearby Mercury/Soyka a bust with the same programming idea?
Now showing “HUBBLE 3D” and advertising with other commercial runs as the American Museum of Natural History Imax.
Radio City was never built as a movie palace. The Roxy (Center) was the failed movie palace. Radio City was built as a Music Hall and settled for movies when music shows failed.
Nickelodeons did not first start in New York City but in cities like Pittsburgh and Chicago. New York was not the birthplace of film exhibition.
The New York boom was centered between Park Row and The Bowery in Manhattan where over two dozen operated by 1906 to service the crowded lower east side tenements.
“If we continually rob those who are successful and give it to those who aren’t, then we stifle growth and innovation.”
..and if you continually rob those who aren’t successful, you have no buyers."
Even conservative right wing Henry Ford understood that an employee paid a fair wage might buy a car. Why do conservatives fail to understand that basic capitalist idea today?
Thank God the foreign markets had some sense.
…in 1971.
Stan, the RKO 86th Street re-opened as a twin in
Joe, those dates are indeed correct. I still worked for them at the time.
Here is the Miami exile version:
/theaters/25103/
A sequel would soon follow (direct to DVD…)
Is 64 years really “soon”?
Why not? How many hundreds of ex-porn theatres are Christian Churches today?
Chains build theatres based on marketing studies of age demographics, area income, employment, population, competition and complimentary retail. They then present a report to the bankers who will green light the financing. No chain in their right mind would start with a petition.
Cities approve projects based on projected size, footfall, traffic projection, public transport, impact on nearby residents, parking facilities, noise pollution, etc. They would only license a credible operator at a specific location.
Sounds like someone at Carmike gave this guy the brush off.
As a manager who worked Sensurround, I can tell you it was rumbling seats for shitty films, and nothing more.
Unemployment was the highest since the great depression for three years after Reagan became president. It then improved for the following election (as it will improve in 2012 for Obama).
Yes, Scott, there is a way to give tax credits that are not strictly corporate. You support Medicare, Social Security, and let the rich pay fair taxes instead of always paying less than the average guy. And yes, it was an over the table payment to Marriott who owned Omni at the time.
The REPUBLICAN RICH COME FIRST mentality of St. Louis has yet to recover from the greedy Reagan years after thirty years because your wealthier white citizens are still doing just fine. Everyone else is getting screwed.
Massive tax breaks for the rich and deregulation of most industries, including the movies, allowing corporate take overs of most independent distributors AND exhibitors by the big eight.
The St Louis Union Square was designated a National Landmark in 1976 while Nixon was president.
Reagan’s 150 million dollar tax credits for Union Station were strictly corporate and Marriott made millions by building a free hotel with our tax dollars there. Pork spending defined.
Looking at the city’s dire job losses and population drops since, I think would have been better spent on helping people survive and keep their jobs without having to leave town.
An economic mess like St. Louis is exactly the product of companies like Marriott that Michael Moore targets.
If St. Louis had 150 million federal dollars today would you give it to Marriott for a hotel?
Altruism became dispensable in the greedy eighties when making a profit at any cost became acceptable among otherwise decent people. That was never the case anytime before in US history.
Trickle down Reaganomics and deregulation lead the charge. Movies about unpunished greed like “Risky Business” showed the rewards to whole generation when the hero received a scholarship for running a suburban brothel. The Material Girl Madonna was the poster child for raking in the cash.
Michael Moore’s movies are, albeit manipulative, not against capitalism itself but against this acceptable unbridled greed.
It’s called capitalism without exploitation.
You make a reasonable profit without screwing the workers or the customers in order to do it.
It is the premise of every movie made between 1934 and 1981 before get-rich-quick Republican asshole Ronald Reagan became president.
“Now, movies have a week or two to maximize their 3D ticket sales before finding themselves edged out of those screens by the next 3D movie, especially since most theatres that do have 3D capabilities only have two or three 3D screens.”
That theory would hold if each of these films had a huge opening followed by a huge drop. “Airbender”, “Despicable Me” and “Cats & Dogs” all had weak opening weekends on prime screens.
I think price gouging has been a factor. These are kid films and the family price plus popcorn can be extreme.